Page 33 - Fall2020

The Nourishing Traditions

of Morocco

By Sandrine Perez

y mother, Jacqueline Hahn, was born and raised
in Marrakech, Morocco, and when I was in high

Mschool, wrote a cookbook featuring Moroccan
cuisine. I remember thinking we were the weird family,
1
with garbanzos soaking overnight on the counter, lemons
preserved in labeled glass jars with dates scribbled on

them and olives from our tree curing under rocks and salt
in our kitchen.

I visited Morocco in 2005 and captured the photographs included in
this article. At that time, I’d already been serving as the Weston A. Price
Foundation’s San Francisco chapter leader and had visited a number of
local farms and farmers markets. Nonetheless, I wasn’t quite prepared for
what I saw at the farmers markets in Morocco—for example, an entire
cow’s head hanging from a hook available for sale and cows’ hooves with
their skin and hair on them!

FALL 2020 Wise Traditions 31